"Oh no! Is he...?"

[Kalimac]

Teleri - touche, I'd forgotten that bit. But it's still pretty ambiguous - all they're relying on really is the cloven horn and Faramir's vision, and as Faramir himself pointed out, *somebody* laid Boromir out, and it was the Orcs. I just think it's telling that Frodo and Sam weren't as shocked to see the others as they were to see Gandalf. <P>Though by the time they met Faramir, they were probably so far gone in some ways that they couldn't really think about it one way or the other. You know how it is when you go traveling in some really remote area and after a while everyone and everything back at home starts to take on a vaguely surreal quality - you know, intellectually, that they must be alive or dead, sleeping or waking, whatever; but if you don't specifically think about it, they tend to just stay in a sort of suspended state in your imagination.